It’s a happy ending for the artist whose work was stolen by Bungie and used in Marathon: She’s credited in the game as ‘visual design consultant’

It came to light in 2025 that Bungie had stolen work from artist Antireal and used it in Marathon—and I don’t mean in the “borrowed ideas from” way, I mean in the straight-up “copied and pasted” way. The situation was made doubly awkward because this had happened previously, in Bungie’s other game Destiny 2—and more…

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Marathon secret hunters hit their first gold mine: Spooky terminals, a hidden website, and a Durandal audio log

If there was any doubt that Marathon would be Bungie’s new canvas for community puzzles and ARGs, let it go, because the community has already stumbled into a doozy. Terminals linked to Marathon (the ship) on Perimeter have suddenly awoken, and they’re pointing toward a spooky audio log seemingly left by Durandal, the rampant AI…

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Valve still ‘hopes’ to ship Steam Machines in 2026, but a delay into 2027 is starting to look like a real possibility: ‘Memory and storage shortages have created challenges for us’

The new hardware lineup revealed by Valve in 2025—the Steam Controller, Steam Frame VR headset, and Steam Machine—made quite a first impression. The Steam Machine in particular came off as streamlined, simple, and very capable: A significant evolution over Valve’s early Steam Machines that has the potential to finally bring livingroom PC gaming to the…

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